Research Article

Enhancement of the Anti-Skin Wrinkling Effects of Aloe arborescens Miller Extracts Associated with Lactic Acid Fermentation

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Comparison of the morphologies of human fibroblast cells on the third day after treatment with 0.01% and 0.5% of the three different extracts and comparison with the control (not treated). GE, gel juice extracted after peeling off the leaves of A. vera; WE, the water extract from the whole aerial parts of A. arborescens at 100°C for 24 hours; FE, fermentation of the whole aerial parts of A. arborescens grown with L. plantarum at 37°C for 4 days and further extracted by an ultrasonicator at 40 kHz for 1 hour at room temperature.